Evidence: | 'The book arrived by the first post.[...] [it] might be described as an appalling indictment of the middle classes--[...] But in the introspective silence that came over me after I closed the volume and sat through a solitary afternoon I felt that this may be the Conscience of the Age overheard by John Galsworthy in its uneasy whisperings [...].'
Hence follow 18 lines of appreciative comment. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 30 May 1908 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | morning: precisely identified as between first post and early afternoon afternoon |
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Place: | city: Luton Hoo Estate county: Bedfordshire specific address: Someries |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Joseph Conrad |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 3 Dec 1857 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Master mariner and author |
Religion: | originally Polish Catholic, by now agnostic/atheist |
Country of origin: | Poland |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | John Galsworthy |
Title: | A Commentary |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Grant Richards: London,1908 |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 24768 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
Editor: | Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies | |
Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 1990 | |
Vol: | 4 | |
Page: | 83 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to John Galsworthy 30 May,1908, Someries. |
Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 (Cambridge, 1990), 4, p. 83, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24768, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
The timing and impact of this reading experience, by implication a solitary one, are very well defined in the evidence. |
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